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The word 'loans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of loans in Corpus

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Orkney

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
s, Roads, etc. We have Wynds, Loans and Klosses... I think Kloss (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ese players won’t have their loans extended. It’s a myth that p (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the kintra loans.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
things in life urnae bocht wi loans on page 141

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
tant point that the Old Norse loans found in Scots ([…] leaving
rman [i.e. French], where the loans into Scots are independent of
Scots legal terms, most Latin loans into Scots are also attested
3 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
S) cairt. Maist o the pads an loans that's eith tae follae is wee on page 65

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
only cost tae me was student loans that I had tae take oot becau(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
closes, gaits, hauchs, knows, loans, raws, strachts, vennels an w
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
can hear the dugs berk in the loans
1 matches

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